Quotes About Finance

most basic fact of accounting.

I am a financier in a city ruled by financiers. My father was a financier in a city ruled by industrialists.

Rask also experimented with financing credit lines and installment plans with stores and manufacturers so that they could offer these payment options directly to their customers.

Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.

trading in money.

The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift west and are burned up in the sun. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and shot.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.

She sucked in her stomach, ready to take it like a man, or at least like a romance novelist capable of reading her own royalty statements.

All about a dollar like four quarters.

Money spread like germs, get sick na.

I don't know how everyone else is getting by, paying their bills, and sleeping through the night.

Do not make important decisions when you have no money in the bank because any decision you make is going to cost you.

Economics is all algebra.

Of course for professional traders on the stock exchange, money had always been imaginary - just as notional, just as easy come and easy go, as the points in a video game. Wage earners like Willing's mother thought money was real. Because the work was real, and the time was real, it seemed inconceivable that what the work and the time had converted into would be gossamer.

Now that he was basically bankrolling her, the conversations made her feel inadequate and edgy.

When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, "Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

When I was a builder, I drove a blue van. It had a hole in the floor and I couldn't afford to fix it. I put a concrete block over the hole.

My incentive in starting Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That's a very selfish thing.

The Fed's buying is far more important to the market price of U.S. debt than any other economic variable. If the Fed stops buying, it doesn't matter whether unemployment goes up or down. It doesn't matter whether inflation is higher or lower. Its influence on the market is dominant.